Université de Fribourg

Dissociable components of spatial neglect associated with frontal and parietal lesions

Saj, Arnaud ; Verdon, Vincent ; Hauert, Claude-Alain ; Vuilleumier, Patrik

In: Neuropsychologia, 2018, vol. 115, p. 60–69

Spatial neglect is a complex neuropsychological disorder, in which patients fail to detect and respond to contralesional stimuli. Recent studies suggest that these symptoms may reflect a combination of different component deficits, associated with different lesion substrates. Thus, damage to right lateral prefrontal and inferior parietal regions produce different degrees of left neglect on...